History of Photography [Rotation 11]
Exhibition Info History of Photography [Rotation 11] This rotation, curated by Rachel E. Andrews, assistant collection manager in the Department of Photography, provides an overview of the history of photography through works produced by women photographers, artists, printers, and entrepreneurs. Selections include portraits hand-colored by unidentified nineteenth-century women, a botanical specimen by Anna Atkins, the photograph by Margaret Bourke-White featured on the cover of Life magazine’s first issue, and a conceptual artwork of appropriated words and imagery by Barbara Kruger. This installation highlights women’s involvement in the production of photographic objects from the medium’s invention to the present day.
About the History of Photography Gallery
The George Eastman Museum photography collection is among the best and most comprehensive in the world. With holdings that include objects ranging in date from the announcement of the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day, the collection represents the full history of photography. Works by renowned masters of the medium exist side-by- side with vernacular and scientific photographs. The collection also includes all applications of the medium, from artistic pursuit to commercial enterprise and from amateur pastime to documentary record, as well as all types of photographic processes, from daguerreotypes to digital prints. The museum's History of Photography Gallery is dedicated to rotating installations that demonstrate photography’s historical trajectory through photographs and cameras drawn from the collection. The selection of photographs changes approximately three times a year, continually refreshing the experience of visiting the Eastman Museum and offering regular opportunities to display the museum’s treasures.
Photograph
Katy Grannan
2012
2015.0048.0001
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1860
1995.2679.0001
Bound volume
Anna Atkins
ca. 1850
1995.2633.0001
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1865
1994.1454.0001
Photograph
Helen Levitt
ca. 1940
1993.0522.0003
Photograph
Barbara Kruger
1992
1992.0379.0001
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1948
1989.1121.0005
Photograph
Nan Goldin
1988
1988.0615.0002
Photograph
Susan Meiselas
August 1978
1985.0754.0001
Photograph
Diane Arbus
1970–71
1984.0260.0001
Photograph
Julia Margaret Cameron
1867
1981.1124.0007
Photograph
Unidentified
1853
1981.1100.0003
Photograph
Dorothea Lange
1936
1980.0751.0001
Photograph
Lisette Model
1941
1980.0470.0002
Photograph
Geneviève-Elisabeth Disdéri
1856
1980.0256.0026
Photograph
Emily Sibley Watson
ca. 1889
1978.1306.0320
Photograph
Emily Sibley Watson
ca. 1889
1978.1306.0317
Photograph
Emily Sibley Watson
June 3, 1891
1978.1306.0293
Photograph
Emily Sibley Watson
June 2, 1891
1978.1306.0276
Photograph
Inge Morath
1953
1978.0046.0012
Photograph
Imogen Cunningham
ca. 1927
1977.0760.0060
Bound volume
Constance Sackville-West
1867
1976.0151.0029
Bound volume
Constance Sackville-West
1867
1976.0151.0001-0042
Photograph
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
1947
1975.0077.0002